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Beijing Ikea. I shop there often. The cafeteria, with heavy silverware and live music, feels opulent. An industrial design student I know admired one of their chairs for three years and finally bought it as a prop for her final project. During exhibition of her work, unfortunately, visitors said, “What a beautiful chair.”

Thanks to Bruce Charlton and Paul Sas.

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You may be interested in a new Wired article about Sergey Brin’s attempts to discover treatments for Parkinson’s disease (and other ailments). It could be complementary to self-experimentation, if enough people quantify themselves online.
â€œGenerally the pace of medical research is glacial compared to what Iâ€™m used to in the Internet,â€ Brin says. â€œWe could be looking lots of places and collecting lots of information. And if we see a pattern, that could lead somewhere.â€